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Shon Schaffran

This a long overdue letter to thank you all at the Chugach Heritage Foundation for the blessing you have bestowed upon me and my family. I truly thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for blessing me and my family through you.

I honestly cannot thank you enough! For you paid for the whole master’s program and then some. As a result, I am now teaching full time on the island of Maui for Iao Intermediate School in 7th grade Social Studies and your gift continues to provide for me and my family.

Welcome to Chugach Heritage Foundation

The Chugach Heritage Foundation (CHF) incorporated as a non-profit foundation in the State of Alaska to promote three goals:

To discover, record, preserve, and promote knowledge and public awareness of the Native cultures of the Chugach Region, namely the history, languages, customs, arts, and achievements of the people of the Chugach Region;

To provide scholarships to encourage the educational pursuits of Alaska Native children and adults who are enrolled in the Chugach Region through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as amended, and their descendents; and

To study the needs and aspirations of Native people of the Chugach Region as their awareness of Native culture and conflict grows and changes.